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Friday, July 16, 2010

Do U Shoot Yr Food?

Tea at Carette - Place des Vosges with Amy Thomas AKA Sweet Freak, could only mean shooting our food like mad. When bloggers get together better duck.Tea at Carette, watercolor, 9" x 11"I naturally shot Amy's tea with plans to paint it. This is Amy's shot of her clafouti and I did not even taste it.

I shot our neighbor's fraise compote after asking permission. I would have liked to taste this if he had offered, but he did not. You should not covet thy neighbor's macarons.Carette's terrace is a free-for-all for shooter/bloggers. The BBC Food Program had a recent chat on amateur food photography. Evidently we're giving the Pros a run for their money literally. We're stepping on their toes big time. Ouch Amy and I went insideand started shooting like Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid. Duck for cover everyone!

well obviously i cannot give an unbiased account of my personal proclivities in this area. but i have to admit to feeling rather sorry for food in these situations - being affronted by these unattractive unwieldy menacing and clinical items of what can only be characterized as "equipment".

when they can design a good camera to look like a piece of jewelry then all will be right-er in my world.

Your title made my heart beat faster! Do I shoot my food??? Only if it has LONG EARS!Sadly, as soon as the camera appeared on scene, my pulse slowed, my eyelids drooped and I had only the thought of all those macs to sustain me.

I love, love, love to shoot my food. All the special food I prepare and the pretty and delicious ones from restaurants.I used to make my family very embarrassed but now they are used to watch me doing that. They know they can't change me!But one thing... I still have to develop that shy side of mine, when shooting "other people's" food! Oh my Gosh!!! I am TOO SHY to do it!You always surprise me Carollll!

This is my fave. Yes I shoot food and I get odd looks, and my family sighs in embarrassment and my husband says aloud "Is this for your blog?"---"Well, yeah" I loved going to tea with you and Amy. Now there is a lucky duck (AMY) Paris, tea at Carette at Place des Vosges and hangin' with Carol...how sweet.

I was in La Maison du Chocolat on Wednesday in NYC and started to take a shot of my drink and the girls next to me said "Oh you take photos of your food too!!" it was really kind of fun....they were getting it. :)

That's my biggest problem Chatelaine - I often launch into my lunch BEFORE SHOOTING!Horrors!I'm not sure why this is..?Sometimes I completely forget to shoot my food until I remember days later. I need help with this.I'm guilty as sin on many counts.:(

Last month in Paris, I took my courage and shoot my food and I loved it. Since I'm back I am glad that I have picture of the food that chefs prepared for me it is memorable and beautiful.

I also took picture of Chef Pierre and the students that I met at the Hotel Ritz for the Soufflee classes. The only picture I didn't take it was Bruce Willis coming out of the back of the hotel throught the kitchen, I froze. Nice man and in good shape, he was there to promote some kind of vodka. What a adventure.

I am always "shooting" my food. I tell friends, some people keep a calories journal, I just take a picture. Only problem is my friends have started commenting on how many pastries I have been eating lately. Ah well, we must suffer for our art...

I always shoot my food, especially when I go to tea. I love being able to remember the little details the pics provide later on. My husband and son have gotten used to waiting. Also, when I stay at a fabulous hotel or B&B, my husband knows not to disturb a thing until I get pics of every little detail. I have a very patient, understanding hubby!!

Oh heck. I shoot my food all the time--one time even a beautiful plate of grits, eggs, and hotcakes in a Texas diner. It was tasty; however, nothing as lovely as you have bagged on this blog! And, even though today, I'm in the middle of making a very traditional English Prime Rib for our Christmas Eve supper, the strawberries you shot, reminded me of the Fraise that I made one year for my sister's bd. Maybe for Easter dessert in 2012...You're an inspiration.

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I moved to Paris 2 years ago. I should have done it sooner but that's how the macaron crumbles. Living on the Ile Saint Louis next to the Seine after the 19eme is 'la cerise sur la gâteau'. It doesn't get any better. I've painted watercolors for Bocuse, Champagne Mumm, Guerlain, Frederick Cassel, The Russian Tearoom and the Maharana of Udaipur.
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